Cangling Immortal Clan

Upon deciding to reclaim the Great Dao True Understanding from the Shadow Clan, both of the Human Clan's Dao Ancestors revealed solemn expressions.

The Shadow Clan is not a small clan; in the entire Eternal Heaven Realm, they are considered a rather powerful race.

This lineage was extremely powerful in the ancient times, skilled in killing and assassination, but was almost completely wiped out in the battle against the Immortal Venerable of Longevity. Even the Shadow Clan's treasure was suppressed in the forbidden land of the human race.

However, it must be admitted that the Shadow Clan's foundation is indeed not to be underestimated. Even though they were almost wiped out in the Primordial Era, they gradually rose again after the Longevity Immortal Venerable.

Especially after the split of the human race, this lineage rose to prominence by taking advantage of the opportunity of other races suppressing the human race. To this day, the strongest Dao Ancestor of this lineage is already a late-stage Integration Realm existence.

"The Shadow Clan only has two Nascent Soul Dao Ancestors. Apart from the Shadow Clan Chief, who has the cultivation of the late Nascent Soul stage, the other one only has the cultivation of the early Nascent Soul stage. Neither of them is particularly powerful."

"However, the Shadow Clan is adept at concealing themselves. Once they detect that we have made a move, even an invincible Dao Ancestor would find it difficult to stop them."

As the Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Spirits recounted the powerful strength of the Shadow Clan, a solemn expression appeared between his brows.

In fact, for the three Dao Ancestors of the Human Race, the two Dao Ancestors of the Shadow Race who had reached the Integration Stage were not a great threat, since their highest cultivation level was only the late Integration Stage.

However, once the two sides completely break off relations, the two Dao Ancestors, who are skilled in concealment and assassination, are enough to throw the entire human race into chaos.

Especially the Shadow Clan Lord in the late stage of the Fusion Realm. Once he has no more worries and chooses to assassinate the Human Refinement Void Supreme, probably no one will be able to escape his assassination.

By then, even if Ye Linyuan himself took action, it would be difficult to capture him.

Thinking of this, Ye Linyuan calmly said, "If we don't act, we don't act at all. But once we do, we must act with thunderous force and suppress the Shadow Clan with lightning speed."

The Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Medicines nodded, constantly calculating the trump cards in his hand. After a moment, he said, "The Shadow Clan Holy Land is a seventh-order Dao field. To break through it instantly, one would need at least the strength of an invincible Dao Ancestor."

"Moreover, a cunning rabbit has three burrows. Such an ancient clan must have multiple means of survival. Even if we break through the Shadow Clan's holy land in an instant, he may still escape at a critical moment."

"To completely prevent the other party from escaping, we would need a spatially attributed creation treasure to have a very high chance of success."

Upon hearing this, the Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Spirits frowned slightly.

Spatial attribute creation treasures are extremely rare. There is only one in the entire Eternal Heaven Realm, which is the treasure of the Void Spirit Clan - the Universal Void Cauldron.

Given the relationship between the human race and the Void race, the possibility of borrowing this treasure is probably slim.

But at this moment, Ye Linyuan calmly said, "Although I do not have the Huanxu Cauldron, I have mastered the Great Dao of Time and the Great Dao of Space. The wonder of their combination is extraordinary."

"After breaking the formation, I will use the Creation Divine Power Space-Time Forbidden Realm to seal off the Shadow Clan's Holy Land. However, once I use this technique, I will be unable to free up my hands for a short period of time, and you will need to hold off their full-scale counterattack."

The Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Spirits smiled and immediately said, "Don't worry, with the two of us here, the Shadow Clan won't be able to cause any trouble."

Ye Linyuan nodded. In fact, activating the Time-Space Forbidden Zone wouldn't take too long. He was just worried that the Shadow Clan might have some trump cards and be able to seize this brief opportunity to forcefully launch an attack.

Thinking of this, Ye Linyuan said, "Since that's the case, then let's finish this quickly and not give the Shadow Clan and the other clans a chance to react."

"..."

With the three making the decision, the operation against the Shadow Clan erupted instantly.

To ensure that this battle can decide the fate of the world, not only will all three Dao Ancestors, including Ye Linyuan, participate, but also all the newly formed Fusion Realm cultivators who have broken through in the last few million years, such as Huan, Gui, Qi, Huang, and Xu, will participate.

Of course, to prevent the news from leaking, only eight Dao Ancestors participated in this battle.

On this day, the eight Great Ancestors of the Human Race arrived silently outside the Shadow Clan's Holy Land and quietly surrounded the entire Holy Land.

"The Shadow Clan's sacred ground has been refined over many years and contains a high-grade seventh-order array. Are you really confident that you can break it in an instant?"

Outside the Shadow Clan's sacred mountain, the Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Spirits slowly spoke, a cold glint appearing in his eyes.

The Shadow Clan's sacred mountain before them was vast and boundless, a sprawling mountain range stretching for hundreds of millions of miles, with countless array patterns crisscrossing within it, clearly a composite type of seventh-order superior array.

This seventh-grade high-quality composite array is enough to withstand the attack of a Grand Perfection cultivator. Even if two or three Grand Perfection cultivators join forces, it will be difficult to break through it in a short time.

Even an invincible Dao Ancestor would probably need to put in some effort to break through it.

However, Ye Linyuan's current strength has already reached the level of a top-tier invincible Dao Ancestor, so he naturally has full confidence in the Shadow Clan's Sacred Mountain.

"Breaking this formation is not difficult, but I am worried that the enemy will react and escape."

Ye Linyuan spoke calmly, then said to the two Dao Ancestors, "I will break the formation first, and then you two seniors will use the Heavenly Desolate Cauldron to suppress the universe, creating an opportunity for me to activate the Space-Time Forbidden Realm."

"it is good."

The two Dao Ancestors nodded, then looked at the five newly promoted Dao Ancestors, including Huan and Gui, and said, "After the great battle begins, you don't need to participate in the main battlefield. Just hold off the Shadow Clan's forces for us."

Upon hearing this, the five Great Dao Ancestors, including Huan and Gui, all nodded solemnly.

All five of them were Dao Ancestors who broke through in the last few million years, and their cultivation is still stuck at the early stage of the Integration Realm. The fastest among them is only at the early stage of the old Integration Realm.

However, this level of strength is not weak even among the Dao Ancestors who have achieved the Fusion Realm, after all, they are the most amazing group of people in the tens of millions of years of human history.

The five of them needed to deal with the Shadow Clan's half-step fusion form.

Among these Dao-Merging races, there must be quite a few hidden half-step Integration Realm cultivators. Once war breaks out, these half-step Integration Realm cultivators will surely fight to the death, which may help the two Dao Ancestors of the Shadow Clan find an opportunity to escape.

Therefore, the five of them taking action to stop these people was a crucial step.

Getting back to the main point, Ye Linyuan, seeing that everyone had made arrangements, didn't delay any longer and said directly, "Let's do it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Linyuan made his move, unleashing a world-destroying sword Dao that surged across the heavens.

This sword strike is formed from the convergence of 365 Great Daos, and its power is unprecedented, making it one of the most powerful and deadly killing techniques in history.

With Ye Linyuan's current cultivation level, its power even touched the limit of the invincible Dao Ancestor, and was three points stronger than the power of the Heavenly Dao Ancient Sword activated by the Celestial Ancestor back then.

"Chong-"

With a sword's cry, the Shadow Clan's sacred formation was instantly torn open, and the entire formation suffered immense damage.

The Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Medicines seized the opportunity and unleashed the Heavenly Desolate Cauldron, which shattered the entire formation of the Shadow Clan's sacred land on the spot.

The Ancestor of Ten Thousand Spirits also activated his Natal True Spirit Array, manifesting ten thousand True Spirits that swept across the sky, suppressing the entire Shadow Clan Holy Land.

"not good!"

In that instant, the expressions of the two Dao Ancestors who had merged into one in the Shadow Clan Holy Land changed drastically. They immediately tried to break through the void to escape, but found that an invisible force had already enveloped the entire vast land.

Ye Linyuan activated the Space-Time Barrier to cover the heavens, and a space-time barrier of the Five Elements was spreading rapidly, seemingly about to completely envelop the entire Shadow Clan Holy Land.

"At this time, the spatial forbidden zone has not yet been fully formed, so if we split up and escape, we still have a sliver of hope."

Seeing that he could not tear open the void, the Shadow Clan Lord decisively spoke and then flew away frantically into the distance.

At this moment, the Shadow Clan Lord was extremely anxious. If he had just a moment, he could take advantage of the time-space forbidden zone before it completely closed and escape from this terrifying forbidden zone.

Unfortunately, the two Dao Ancestors had long wanted to get rid of him, and now that they had been preparing for so long, why would they give him a chance to escape?
But then, the Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Medicines took the opportunity to activate the Heavenly Desolate Cauldron and suppress it, causing it to fly back.

On the other side, the Shadow Clan Ancestor, who was in the early stage of the Fusion Realm, was even more vulnerable and was almost instantly beaten to death by the Myriad Spirits Dao Ancestor.

"My lads, the crisis of our clan's extinction is imminent! Take action now!"

The Shadow Clan leader was sent flying backward by the shockwave. Seeing that the spatial-temporal forbidden zone was still spreading rapidly, he couldn't help but roar in anger.

In fact, even before the Shadow Clan leader spoke, the Shadow Clan's resources within this holy land were already restless.

Seeing the enemy approaching, the Shadow Clan instantly dispatched dozens of half-step Integration Realm cultivators, each unleashing their ultimate divine power to attack the two Dao Ancestors, attempting to create a glimmer of hope for them.

But at that very moment, five more boundless and magnificent auras made their move.

The five Dao Ancestors of the combined realms—Huan, Gui, Qi, Huang, and Xu—unleashed their full power, unleashing waves of world-destroying divine power that surged across the heavens, instantly suppressing these half-step combined realm cultivators.

A half-step fusion cultivator is ultimately just a half-step fusion cultivator. Even if they can barely threaten a fusion Dao Ancestor for a short time when they unleash their full power, they can only pose a threat in the end.

At this moment, the five Dao Ancestors who had merged into one body disregarded their own injuries and instantly used all their strength to stop these people, allowing the Dao Ancestors Wan Yao and Wan Ling to concentrate their attention on stopping the two.

In that brief moment of obstruction, the spatial-temporal forbidden zone had already completed its final closure, completely enveloping the entire Shadow Clan Holy Mountain.

"From today onwards, the Shadow Clan will fall to the ranks of the Hundred Clans." Having completely completed the Space-Time Forbidden Domain, Ye Linyuan spoke calmly, as if delivering his final verdict on the Shadow Clan.

The Shadow Clan leader couldn't help but change his expression drastically, his pupils filled with extreme fear as he looked at Ye Linyuan and asked, "Do you really intend to carry out an act of annihilation?"

"Let's not even talk about how many Dao Ancestor-level geniuses of my human race have lost their chance to achieve Dao by using your treasures of destiny."

Ye Linyuan spoke calmly, saying indifferently, "Just take what has been found out so far: the Shadow Clan has assassinated seventy-six of my quasi-saints over the past tens of millions of years. This debt is enough to wipe out your entire Shadow Clan."

"Ridiculous! The ancient human race slaughtered hundreds of millions of my Shadow Clan members. How should this debt be settled?"

The Shadow Clan leader's face was filled with murderous intent, and his eyes were filled with extreme shock and anger.

Ye Linyuan shook his head and calmly said, "In the ancient times, the Shadow Clan regarded our human race as food, and countless human ancestors were devoured by you."

"With the rise of our human race, we must naturally settle accounts with everything."

"However, you have a point. In this world, the strong are respected, and right and wrong are no longer so important."

"boom--"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Linyuan personally took action, wielding the Sword of Myriad Paths to suppress the eight wastelands, and immediately beheaded the Shadow Clan leader.

This battle was a foregone conclusion. Faced with absolute power, even the Shadow Clan's lord, with his extraordinary combat strength, was powerless to turn the tide.

In the end, Ye Linyuan cut his body into nine pieces, intending to take them back to the Demon Suppression Tower to suppress them separately.

As for the Shadow Clan ancestor who was in the early stage of the Fusion Realm, he was completely crushed into ashes by Ye Linyuan, and even his power of the Great Dao was completely shattered.

"The power of the nascent Great Dao is ultimately too weak. With the power of an invincible Dao Ancestor, it is entirely possible to completely annihilate someone in the early stage of the Fusion Realm."

After killing the Shadow Clan's Dao Ancestor, Ye Linyuan seemed to have gained some insight.

He had a vague feeling that if the Invincible Dao Ancestor could kill someone in the early stage of the Integration Realm, then theoretically, it would be possible to obliterate the primordial spirit of someone in the middle stage of the Integration Realm if he cultivated the Nine Refinements of the Divine Soul to the ninth level.

However, beings at the late stage of the Integration Realm or above are very difficult to kill; one needs at least the cultivation level of a Mahayana Immortal Venerable to do so.

As for the experts at the Perfected Integration level, they are almost immortal beings, whose Great Dao has been completely perfected.

Even the immortals of the past could only destroy their primordial spirits, not their physical bodies.

If a fully formed physical body is immortal, even if the primordial spirit is completely destroyed, theoretically a new primordial spirit may still be conceived within the physical body.

Although this new primordial spirit is very different from the previous one, just like wheat ears sprouting again on the land, there is still a possibility of awakening the memories of the previous body.

“In an era when Mahayana Immortal Venerables do not appear, it is almost impossible to completely kill someone in the late stage of the Integration Realm.”

Ye Linyuan's mind was in turmoil, but he quickly brought all his thoughts back.

With a flick of his finger, he annihilated a half-step Integration Realm cultivator of the Shadow Clan. He then arrived at the Shadow Clan's sacred land and emptied its treasure trove.

In this battle, he obtained a massive amount of rare and precious treasures, including more than twenty seventh-order creation items and nearly a hundred pieces of creation energy. It can be said that he made a fortune in one go.

Most importantly, Ye Linyuan also found the fourth fragment of the Great Dao True Understanding, which he had been longing for, in the Shadow Clan's treasure vault.

"If I'm not mistaken, after thoroughly understanding this fragment of the Great Dao True Explanation, my consumption of the Qi of Creation will be greatly reduced, and I should be more confident in breaking through to the late stage of the Integration Realm in the future."

Ye Linyuan pondered for a moment, then slowly withdrew the spacetime restriction domain.

Meanwhile, outside the Shadow Clan's sacred land, a number of people had already appeared, including the Celestial Ancestor, the Primordial God Emperor, and the Void Spirit Ancient Clan, among other invincible Dao Ancestors.

They looked at Ye Linyuan with immense fear in their eyes.

"Isn't Your Excellency going too far by committing the act of exterminating an entire clan?"

Seeing Ye Linyuan emerge, the Ancient Ancestor of the Void Spirit couldn't help but speak, a cold glint in his eyes.

Ye Linyuan did not answer, but calmly said, "The Shadow Clan and my human race are sworn enemies. Now that I have achieved a certain level of cultivation, it is natural for me to settle accounts with this lineage."

The Sun God Emperor's expression was very unpleasant, and he couldn't help but say, "I'm afraid what you seek is not just to eliminate this lineage."

"Fellow Daoist has discerning eyes."

Ye Linyuan nodded and said directly, "The True Explanation of the Great Dao is a treasure of our human race, and it is of some use to my understanding of the Great Dao of Chaos. Naturally, I want to collect them all."

"For those of you who possess the true understanding of the Great Dao, our human race can exchange it for opportunities to refine spirits, or even seventh-order creation medicines."

Upon hearing this, the Sun God Emperor smiled and said, "If you have a top-grade Soul Refining Pill, I can trade it to you."

Upon hearing this, Ye Linyuan's gaze sharpened slightly, but he did not continue speaking.

The Soul Refining Pill is a supreme treasure of the Soul Dao, capable of helping a Nascent Soul Dao Ancestor break through to the Nascent Soul cultivation level. The top-grade Soul Refining Pill can even be used to break through to the perfect Nascent Soul level.

In the current Eternal Heaven Realm, the soul cultivation of the vast majority of Nascent Soul Dao Ancestors is one or two realms lower than their own cultivation.

Even the invincible Dao Ancestor's primordial spirit cultivation mostly stops at the late stage of the Integration Realm.

To break through to the Great Ascension Immortal Venerable realm, one must at least cultivate a primordial spirit at the perfect level of integration; otherwise, it is impossible to completely fuse the primordial spirit, the Great Dao, and the physical body.

Therefore, Soul Refining Pills are strategic resources, and top-grade Soul Refining Pills are among the strongest treasures in the Eternal Heaven Realm.

Unfortunately, the main ingredient of the Soul Refining Pill—the Soul Refining Grass—was too difficult to cultivate. The Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Medicines only succeeded in cultivating it once, and finally refined two Soul Refining Pills, which were given to the Celestial Ancestor and the Heavenly Demon Ancestor respectively.

It is precisely because of this that these two progenitors are extremely powerful, consistently ranking among the top three in both realms.

Others who could be compared to them, such as the Ancient Ancestor of the Void Spirit and the Primordial God Emperor, were also beings who had obtained opportunities to cultivate and achieve the perfect primordial spirit.

"Top-grade Soul Refining Pills are extremely precious. Even if our human race can cultivate them, they are still far inferior to a fragment of the Great Dao True Explanation."

Ye Linyuan answered calmly, a hint of indifference in his eyes.

Upon seeing this, the Sun God Emperor said calmly, "If the human race has a top-grade Soul Refining Pill, I can exchange it for a Creation Treasure."

"If not, then I'm afraid I cannot hand over this incomplete page of the Great Dao True Explanation to you."

Upon hearing this, Ye Linyuan understood that the various clans did not want to see his strength grow too large.

After all, Ye Linyuan is now comparable to an invincible Dao Ancestor. Once his cultivation breaks through to the perfect state of Integration, his strength will likely be comparable to that of the Nine Nether Demon Emperor, and he may even suppress the Nine Nether Demon Emperor.

The invincible Dao Ancestors of the Eternal Heaven Realm are used to being carefree and naturally do not want to have another ancestor above them.

Ye Linyuan understood that the remaining six fragments of the Great Dao True Explanation would be difficult to obtain, so he didn't say anything more to the others and simply left calmly with the Dao Ancestors of the human race.

As soon as he left, a hint of coldness appeared in the eyes of the several invincible Dao Ancestors.

"This person's cultivation level hasn't even broken through to the late stage of the Integration Realm, yet his strength is so formidable. Could it be that someone secretly traded a creation treasure to this person?"

The Celestial Ancestor spoke, his gaze involuntarily turning to the True Dragon Ancestor, the Celestial Demon Ancestor, and others.

Noticing the gaze of the Celestial Ancestor, the Celestial Demon Ancestor immediately sneered, "Does Your Excellency think that I traded the treasure of creation to this person?"

"Although I have good relations with the human race, I will not easily take out such a treasure."

As he spoke, the Heavenly Demon Ancestor's gaze swept over the True Dragon Ancestor, the Immortal Phoenix Ancestor, and the others.

In fact, he also had some doubts. Perhaps someone present had given the Primordial Treasure of Creation to Ye Linyuan for spirit refining, since it was really exaggerated for someone to have the invincible power of a Dao Ancestor in the mid-stage of the Integration Realm.

Unless Ye Linyuan has completed the spirit refining process and refined at least three creation treasures that increase combat power, this would be a more reasonable explanation.

Unfortunately, no matter how much they doubted it, they couldn't get an answer.

After all, the treasures of creation are the foundation of each race, and these are their trump cards. No one knows how many treasures of creation the people present actually possess.

Thinking of this, the Heavenly Demon Ancestor sneered, tore open the void with a flick of his sleeve, and disappeared into the endless ends of heaven and earth.

Seeing this, the others also tore through the void and departed. (End of Chapter)